Examination of Common Prayer, Title page
A Short Sober PACIFIC EXAMINATION of some Exuberances in, and Ceremonial Appurtenances TO THE Common Prayer;
ESPECIALLY, Of the Use and Frequent Repetitions of Glosy be to the Father, &c. Standing up at it, at Gospels, Creeds, and Wearing white Rochets, Surplises, with other Canonical Vestments in the celebration of Divine Service and Sacraments; whose Originals, Grounds of Institution and Prescription, are here truly related, and modestly discussed, for the instruction of the ignorant, the satisfaction of all Contenders for, or Oppugners of, and preventing future Contests about them, for our Churches Vnion in Gods Publike Worship.
By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne.
Rom. 14. 13. 19. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for Peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. Let us not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall in his Brothers way.
Phil. 2. 1, 2, 3, 4. If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one minde. Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowlinesse of minde let each esteem other better than himself. Look not every one on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Caelestini Papae Epist. ad Episcopos Galliae, cap. 1. Didicimus quosdam Domini Sacerdotes superstitioso potius cultui inservire, quàm mentis vel fidei puritati. Habent tamen istum forsitan cultum, morem potius quàm rationem sequentes. Discernendi à plebe vel caeteris sumus doctrina, non veste; conversatione, non habitu: mentis puritate, non cultu. Rudes ergò fidelium mentes ad talia non debemus inducere. Docendi enim potiùs sunt, quàm illudendi: Nec imponendum est eorum oculis, sed mentibus infundenda praecepta sunt.
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